Danny Antaki
Lead Bioinformatician
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolDanny Antaki is a Lead Bioinformatician with 10 years of experience applying machine learning and AI to next-generation sequencing, synthetic biology, and precision health. He has driven production ML at Twist Bioscience—improving gene scoring and leading the RNA library prep product—and now leads bioinformatics at Natera. Trained as a geneticist with a PhD from UC San Diego, his work spans algorithm development (including a machine-learning structural variation genotyper) and translational research in autism diagnostics. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, he blends hands-on model deployment with domain expertise in NGS to move biomarkers from discovery into production-grade pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's degree Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor's degree Biology/Biological Sciences General at Purdue University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (110)
structural-variation10
genomics10
bedtools10
aesthetics10
bioinformatics10
bam9
next-generation-sequencing9
minhash9
plink9
genetic9
bcftools9
htslib9
samtools9
beta-testing9
tabix9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dantaki/CNVplot
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
dantaki/presentations
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:43 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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